The pair will form part of a team that protects Earth while the majority of its heroes are off-planet dealing with a threat of cosmic proportions.

"Today's mystery character is the Superior Spider-Man," says Marvel executive editor Tom Brevoort in the AR video accessible through the teaser.

"A very different flavor of Spider-Man than the typical hero that we know and love, [he] has commandeered his body and is using it to carry out his own interpretation, his brand of what being a hero is.

"During the course of the Infinity catastrophe, he is on Earth in the center of New York. It is his city, he has it rigged with spider-cameras, spider-bots, spider-minions, and there's no way anyone will be attacking his place without his intervention."

The new Spider-Man has recently experienced trouble fitting in with his Avengers colleagues.